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mouser:

What the heck is OfficePoltergeist?
If you're like me, then your longtime dream has been to take over all the computers in your office and make them play hysterical laughter and/or other crazy noises. Sure, there are all manner of underground "back orifice" type tools out there that can take over a computer, but until now, there wasn't something simple and disposable that you could use in your office without causing headaches further down the road when you have to uninstall some crazy trojan horse.
No... that's too much effort/risk for a stupid prank. Still, the idea of a ghost in the machine has haunted me for some time.
In that spirit, allow me to introduce OfficePoltergeist 1.1, the simplest way to terrorize the people who dwell in the cubes around you.
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http://officepoltergeist.com/




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Carol Haynes:
I had a rather computer illiterate colleague in the days when I managed computer systems (technically he was my boss). He had a Mac in his office (in the days when they looked like a box) and I crept in a set all the default sounds to really annoying things and long musical items (like the Looney Toons theme) so that when he clicked a key or moved the mouse all hell broke loose.

He never did work out how to disable the noises (or who had rigged his machine) and had to come begging to me to put things back to normal. Childish, yes, but he was paid a lot more than me and I did all the troubleshooting!

Dell[a]:
Hey wait a sec, whats wrong with the looney toons theme... oh I am thinking of Tiny toons...
"We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little looney..."

<giggles>
 :D

Carol Haynes:
You want to try working when every button on your desktop (and I mean every button - scroll bars, scroll up/down, up/down keys, open menus, close menus, pressing enter, mouse select, mouse drag, minimise, maximise etc) each had its own little (or not so little) theme tune - all of them irritating at the best of times ...

rjbull:
I once came across a reference to the Printergeist, a malevolent spirit that lived in the printer and occasionally had to be placated.  This was in the manual to a $1,200 piece of commercial software!

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